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Chaotic Dynamics: Theory: Complexity, Control and Data
Representation: Complexity and Unpredictable Scaling of
Hierarchical Structures; R. Badii. Fractals, Multifractals, and
Analyticity of Normal Forms: Multifractal Coding Measures in
Dynamics; G. Mantica. Integrability, Painleve Property, and
Singularity Analysis: Note on a Complex Eckhaus Equation; M.F.
Jorgensen, et al.. Statistical Physics, Celestial Mechanics, and
Cosmology: Phase Transitions Within the Fully Developed Regime; R.
Kluiving. Chaotic Dynamics: Practice: Controlling Dynamical
Systems: Feedback Control of Chaotic Systems; . Romeiras et al..
Semiconductors, Superconductors, Lasers, and Electronic Circuits:
Chaotic Dynamics in Practice; E. Del Rio, et al . Biology,
Chemistry, Atmospheric, and Magnetospheric Dynamics: Irregular
Bursting in Model Neurones; J. Hyde. Hamiltonian Dynamics,
Dissipative Dynamics, and Normal Forms. 30 additional articles.
Index.
Introduction: From Fluid Particles to Physical Particles; M.
Mareschal, B.L. Holian. Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics:
Theoretical Foundation and Rheological Application of
NonEquilibrium Molecular Dynamics; G. Ciccotti, et al. Lattice
Gases: Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of High Reynolds Number Fluid
Flow in Two Dimensions; G. McNamara, B.J. Alder. Other Simulation
Methods: A Contemporary Implementation of the Direct Simulation
Monte Carlo Method; G.A. Bird. Chaos, Turbulence, and
Irreversibility: Lyapunov Exponents and Bulk Transport
Coefficients; D. Evans, et al. Related Topics: Statistical Fracture
Mechanics; A. Chudnovsky, B. Kunin. Recollections: The Long Time
Tail Story; B.J. Adler. 22 additional articles. Index.
Many conferences, meetings, workshops, summer schools and symposia
on nonlinear dynamical systems are being organized these days,
dealing with a great variety of topics and themes -classical and
quantum, theoretical and experimental. Some focus on integrability,
or discuss the mathematical foundations of chaos. Others explore
the beauty of fractals, or examine endless possibilities of
applications to problems of physics, chemistry, biology and other
sciences. A new scientific discipline has thus emerged, with its
own distinct philosophical viewpoint and an impressive arsenal of
new methods and techniques, which may be called Chaotic Dynamics.
Perhaps its most outstanding achievement so far has been to shed
new light on many long standing issues involving complicated,
irregular or "chaotic" nonlinear phenomena. The concepts of
randomness, complexity and unpredictability have been critically
re-examined and the fundamental importance of scaling,
self-similarity and sensitive dependence on parameters and initial
conditions has been firmly established. In this NATO ASI, held at
the seaside Greek city of Patras, between July 11- 20, 1991, a
serious effort was made to bring together scientists representing
many of the different aspects of Chaotic Dynamics. Our main aim was
to review recent advances, evaluate the current state of the art
and identify some of the more promising directions for research in
Chaotic Dynamics.
Charge transport through the transfer of protons between molecules
has long been recognized as a fundamental process, which plays an
important role in many chemical reactions. In particular, proton
transfer through Hydrogen (H-) bonds has been identified as the
main mechanism, via which many bio logical functions are performed
and many properties of such basic substances as proteins and ice
can be understood. In this volume, several of these important
aspects of the H-bond are rep resented. As the division in
different sections already indicates, present day research in
proton teansfer in biochemistry, biology, and the physics of water
and ice remains highly active and very exciting. Nearly a decade
ago, a novel approach to the study of collective proton motion in
H-bonded systems was proposed, in which this phenomenon was
explained by the propagation of certain coherent structures called
solitons. In the years that followed, the approach ofsoliton
dynamics was further extended and developed by many researchers
around the world, into a legitimate and useful method for the
analysis of proton transfer in H-bonded systems. Dr. Stephanos
Pnevmatikos, the original Director of this ARW, was one of the
pioneers in the application ofsoliton ideas to the study ofcharge
transport through H-bonds. Having used similar concepts himself in
his research on 2D lattices) he was convinced energy transfer
through molecular chains (and that solitons can play an important
role in enhancing our understanding of protonic conductivity.
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